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Machinæ coelestis pars prior[-posterior]

by: Hevelius, Johannes, 1611-1687; Stech, Andreas, 1635-1697

Publication date: 1673

Topics: Early works to 1800, Astronomy

Publisher: Gedani, Auctoris typis & sumptibus imprimebat S. Reiniger

Collection: smithsonian

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: Latin

Volume: v 2

Item Size: 1.1G

Some plates by the author; some by I. Saal after A. Stech. Added engr. t.p. (repeated in vols., byJ. Falck after A. Boy. Portrait in v. 2) by L. Visscher after A. Stech

Reference: Dibner,Heralds, no. 10

Provenance: G. Shuckburgh Evelyn,1796 (inscription); Herbert McLean Evans (bookplate); Caroline Herschell (MS translation of another unidentified inscription)

Includes indexes

action: Exhibit page opening: 410 (2 page spread) 1995/05/30 through 1996/05/10 William E. Baxter SIL Exhibition Gallery, NMAH SDS/"Science and the artist's book"

Exhibit

Full polished calf binding said to be by Roger Payne

Imperfect copy: lacks half-title in v.1